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Native-plant committee asks Vienna to modernize vegetation rules; commission votes to revisit endorsement
Summary
A volunteer Native Plant Legislation Committee presented five recommendations to modernize Vienna's 1969 vegetation code, including allowing certain native turf to grow up to 12 inches, requiring bamboo containment, and adding definitions. The Citizen Sustainability Commission voted to revisit and endorse the five recommendations as a starting point; one commissioner (Miguel) dissented.
Dr. Miriam Dovka told the Commission that a volunteer committee of local advocates and lawyers prepared five recommendations to update Vienna's vegetation and property-maintenance rules, which the group said are still based on a 1969 ordinance. The committee's priorities, as summarized by Dovka, include allowing native turf/managed natural landscape to grow taller (the committee proposed a 12-inch allowance for certain native turf), requiring owners to contain running bamboo, adding clear definitions (invasive, native plant, managed natural landscape) and aligning local language where appropriate with…
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